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Total Success A different type of training For more information: email us: tsuccess@dircon.co.uk call us on (+44) 020 8269 1177 or fax us on (+44) 020 8305 0555 NEWSLETTER: PRESENTATION SKILLS Gaining (and holding) the audience's attention Our presentation courses are planned to significantly improve presentation skills to allow delegates of all levels to be able to make powerful presentations. The presentation seminars that we provide are packed full of presentation tips and techniques that demonstrate strategies which will show delegates how to reduce nerves in presentations and to allow them to present confidently when presenting to clients or colleagues. Our presentation skills workshops are designed not just to show delegates how to make a simple presentation: they are designed to show delegates how to create a successful presentation also maximising the applications of PowerPoint to make great presentations. Presentation training will allow delegates to build on their presenting skills; make better presentations; enjoy making presentations and teach delegates how to present successfully. Delegates who have taken our Presentation Courses have expressed how much they enjoyed the variety in our presentation skills training and now feel confident to present in any situation. ** Course Dates 2010: Advanced Presentation Skills 11th Feb // 9th Mar // 16th Apr // 12th May // 4th June // 7th July //19th Aug // 2nd Sept // 8th Oct // 5th Nov // 2nd Dec Presentation Skills - 1Day 17th Feb // 2nd Mar // 7th Apr // 4th May // 28th June // 13th July //5th Aug // 1st Sept // 4th Oct // 10th Nov // 8th Dec* Presentation Skills - 2Days 15th - 16th February // 22nd - 23rd April // 14th – 15th June // 25th – 26th August // 25th – 26th October// 20th – 21st Dec BOOK NOW Total Success can help you improve your presenting skills, allowing you to become a better and more confident presenter. Our courses are designed to develop a delegate's body language and voice projection, and how to create an effective, persuasive and powerful presentation using various methods, such as visual aids. To improve your communications and effective presentation skills and to gain confidence when speaking, sign up to our course today.
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Our newsletter page contains many more. Here are some of our more recent articles Presentation tips Overcoming presentation fear How to structure a presentation Interviewing Skills Good work through praise Time management tips Time management skills Managing your e-mail Time management and working from home Assertiveness Self Assertion Analysis Self Assertion Analysis Becoming More Assertive Dealing with difficult people Customer Service on the telephone Telephone skills and Customer Care Managing your stress Organisational stress management Practical appraisal skills Planning an appraisal and setting objectives Giving feedback in an appraisal The power of attitude in selling Opening the call effectively PowerPoint presentation tips and techniques Using visual aids in PowerPoint presentations How to use transitions in PowerPoint presentations		Attention Gaining Devices Always be aware that attention spans are short and work on techniques to gain your audience's attention. Once you have created your talk, go through it and make sure that every 2-4 minutes you use some kind of attention gaining device. You could use any of the following techniques: increase your voice inflection show a visual hold up a prop move around the room tell a (short) story throw out a one liner write on a flip chart Ensure that no more than a few minutes goes by between attention gaining devices. The audience won't be aware of what you are doing, but they are likely to leave feeling that time went fast. Individual members of the audience will vary in their responsiveness to the factors of attention. With this in mind, you should use a variety of factors in your presentation. In addition, audience members are capable of responding to more than one factor; multiple use will increase the chances of their concentration on your message. PERSUADING YOUR AUDIENCE Effective presentations end with action. The most important question to ask before any presentation is, "What do I want my audience to do and how do I convince them to do it?" Of course, aiming to persuade is different from actually persuading. The best presentations answer basic questions that few presenters ever bother asking: What's my core message? How does that message benefit my audience? What barriers are there to people accepting the message? What common ground (values, experience, goals) do I share with the audience? When I finish, what do I want the audience to do? Presenting is about benefits to the audience and motivating the audience to action post-presentations. As the discussion of the vital suggests, audiences will give more attention to the elements that seem to have pertinent for them. By pointing to the utility of the ideas being presented, and being specific about how and why the audience can benefit from your message, you will increase the chances of keeping their attention. Focus on your message, but ensure that the message is geared towards the audience. PRE-PRESENTATION QUESTIONING Try and find out about your audience before you are due to give a speech. Whether you ask directly, via a pre-presentation questionnaire, asking amongst other things, what they hope to gain from the presentation and what their current issues are, if any. You could also include interests, goals, pet peeves; or whether you speak to managers and/ or colleagues to find out information, but remember to use the information once you have it, and to pepper this throughout your presentation, so that your audience become aware that this is about them. Your attitude should be “to serve.” You are there for 'them' and to give them what 'they' need, as opposed the what you have prepared. 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